The Bonds of Orion

The Bonds of Orion is the fifth book in the Loralynn Kennakris series.

The war is going well: recent victories have Halith in retreat. Now recuperated and promoted, Lieutenant Commander Loralynn Kennakris is on leave, giving her a chance to do a few things she doesn’t have much experience with: resting, relaxing . . . and falling in love.

In all the years since they briefly met, Kris has never been able to forget Mariwen Rathor. And Mariwen, now recovered after years of intense rehabilitation, has never forgotten her. Meeting again after so long apart, Kris is stunned to find Mariwen offering her something she’s never really had: a home.

But life is never that simple. Ordered to take part in a major training exercise with the Karelian military, Kris instead finds herself sent deep into Halith space with Rafe Huron to rescue a hero long thought dead. When Kris left for Karelia, she told Mariwen it was “practically a vacation”. Now, caught between bloody-minded insurgents, invading Halith forces, and a volatile war hero who has her own ideas about being rescued, this ‘vacation’ is shaping up to be Kris’s last.

Thank you very much for the comment, Susanne. I’m afraid to say we don’t have a release date yet. The saying “Man plans; God laughs” seems to apply with particular force to us, and never more so than this summer. So we are holding off any announcements until we are sufficiently confident Life will not play any more dirty tricks on us.

So thanks again for hanging in there! We appreciate it more than we can say!

Sadly, not yet. We had hoped to by now, but there is a lot of work going on with one aspect of the story and that is slowing down the progress.

For better or worse, we don’t work in anything approaching a linear fashion. Ideas appear and realizations happens, and these ripple through the story in unpredictable ways. Sometimes, the story takes strange and unexpected turns (which it just did). Sometimes, seemingly simple changes have complex ramifications (which they just did). In the end, we feel a much better story results, but it does make things unfortunately unpredictable.

It will be interesting to see things from her POV. How she handles her trauma, what she wants do to with the rest of her live, her feelings for Kris and is she really so understanding, that Kris might be leaving her one day for Huron.

I’m very much looking forward to that too (Seeing how she recovers from her trauma). I’ve also wondered the same about the whole Mariwen, Kris and Rafe dynamic. I get that Mariwen doesn’t experience jealousy of any kind but I do wonder if it will hurt her if Kris and Huron get back together as well as what will happen to Mariwen. And since Mariwen seems to think Kris and Rafe are merely on a break and will get back together it really makes me wonder. I’m torn to be honest. I can’t say who I’d rather Kris be with.